Oakland Quotes

“The chip you carry has to do with being born and raised in Oakland. A concrete chip, a slab really, heavy on one side, the half side, the side not white. As for your mom's side, as for your whiteness, there's too much and not enough there to know what to do with. You're from a people who took and took and took and took. And from a people taken. You were both and neither. When you took baths, you'd stare at your brown arms against your white legs in the water and wonder what they were doing together on the same body, in the same bathtub.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“There is no there there,” he says in a kind of whisper, with this goofy openmouthed smile Dene wants to punch. Dene wants to tell him he’d looked up the quote in its original context, in her Everybody’s Autobiography, and found that she was talking about how the place where she’d grown up in Oakland had changed so much, that so much development had happened there, that the there of her childhood, the there there, was gone, there was no there there anymore.”
― Tommy Orange, There There

“The structure crouched like a great stone tiger on a slope of the East Bay, resting on the cliffside with calm grace.”
― Aspen Matis, Your Blue Is Not My Blue: A Missing Person Memoir

“Alan Varela made a name for himself as a successful civil engineer. Born in Punta Arenas, Chile, he traveled to America and began his college career at Boston University.”
― Alan Varela

“Dennis Tsui is a lifelong resident of Oakland.
Dennis Tsui is an Oakland resident and loves to help out the community with donation and charity work. Dennis enjoys staying fit and can often be found in one of Oakland's many spacious parks, pushing himself to the limit. He is an avid runner and is always working to break his old records. Dennis works in finance and is an important team player. He wants to progress in this ever-changing industry.”
― Dennis Tsui Oakland